Sally Field

Born November 6, 1946, in Pasadena, CA, actress Sally Field was the daughter of another actress, Margaret Field, who is perhaps best known to film buffs as the leading lady of the sci-fi The Man From Planet X (1951). Field's stepfather was actor/stunt man Jock Mahoney, who, despite a certain degree of alienation between himself and his stepdaughter, was the principal influence in her pursuit of an acting career. Active in high-school dramatics, Field bypassed college to enroll in a summer acting workshop at Columbia studios. Her energy and determination enabled her to win, over hundreds of other aspiring actresses, the coveted starring role on the 1965 TV series Gidget. Gidget lasted only one season, but Field had become popular with teen fans and in 1967 was given a second crack at a sitcom with The Flying Nun; this one lasted three seasons and is still flying around in reruns.Somewhere along the way Field made her film debut in The Way West (1967) but was more or less ignored by moviegoers over the age of 21. Juggling sporadic work on stage and TV with a well-publicized first marriage (she was pregnant during Flying Nun's last season), Field set about shedding her "perky" image in order to get more substantial parts. Good as she was as a reformed junkie in the 1970 TV movie Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring, by 1972 Field was mired again in sitcom hell with the short-lived weekly The Girl With Something Extra. Freshly divorced and with a new agent, she tried to radically alter her persona with a nude scene in the 1975 film Stay Hungry, resulting in little more than embarrassment for all concerned. Finally, in 1976, Field proved her mettle as an actress in the TV movie Sybil, winning an Emmy for her virtuoso performance as a woman suffering from multiple personalities stemming from childhood abuse. Following this triumph, Field entered into a long romance with Burt Reynolds, working with the actor in numerous films that were short on prestige but long on box-office appeal.By 1979, Field found herself in another career crisis: now she had to jettison the "Burt Reynolds' girlfriend" image. She did so with her powerful portrayal of a small-town union organizer in Norma Rae (1979), for which she earned her first Academy Award. At last taken completely seriously by fans and industry figures, Field spent the next four years in films of fluctuating merit (she also ended her relationship with Reynolds and married again), rounding out 1984 with her second Oscar for Places in the Heart. It was at the 1985 Academy Awards ceremony that Field earned a permanent place in the lexicon of comedy writers, talk show hosts, and impressionists everywhere by reacting to her Oscar with a tearful "You LIKE me! You REALLY LIKE me!" Few liked her in such subsequent missteps as Surrender (1987) and Soapdish (1991), but Field was able to intersperse them with winners such as the 1989 weepie Steel Magnolias and the Robin Williams drag extravaganza Mrs. Doubtfire (1993). Field found further triumph as the doggedly determined mother of Tom Hanks in the 1994 box-office bonanza Forrest Gump, which, in addition to mining box-office gold, also managed to pull in a host of Oscars and various other awards.Following Gump, Field turned her energies to ultimately less successful projects, such as 1995's Eye for an Eye with Kiefer Sutherland and Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco (1996). She also did some TV work, most notably in Tom Hanks' acclaimed From the Earth to the Moon miniseries (1998) and the American Film Institute's 100 Years....100 Movies series. The turn of the century found Field contributing her talents to a pair of down-home comedy-dramas, first with a cameo matriarch role in 2000's Where the Heart Is and later that year as director of the Minnie Driver vehicle Beautiful. Both films met with near-universal derision from critics; only the Steel Magnolias-esque Heart found a modest box-office following.In 2003, Field took a role alongside Reese

Oh, I got money. The president of Wal-Mart gave me five hundred dollars.

Mama Nell

Why, he's not the father of the baby, is he?

Novalee Nation

No.

Mama Nell

Ah, shit.

Edna Spalding

Moze.

Moze

Yes, ma'am.

Wayne Lomax

You took a no-account piece of land and a bunch of people that didn't know what they were doin', and you farmed it better than anyone. Colored or white.

Mrs. Gump

What's normal anyways?

Mary Todd Lincoln

(To Thaddeus Stevens) You have always taken such a lively, even prosecutorial, interest in my household accounts

Mary Todd Lincoln

You have always taken such a lively, even prosecutorial, interest in my household accounts.

Thaddeus Stevens

Well, that's because you're household accounts have always been so interesting.

Sassy--The Cat

Shadow is that people?

Shadow--The Golden Retriever

Yes Sassy I'm going to find them.

Chance--The Bulldog

What, no, no strangers Shadow they'll take us to the pound they'll lock us up we'll never come out again!

Shadow--The Golden Retriever

They're just looking for the little girl chance she needs us we have to help.

Chance--The Bulldog

Okay I just hope you know what you're doing I don't want to back there again ever.

Shadow--The Golden Retriever

Don't worry, Sassy you keep her warm I'll be right back.

Sassy--The Cat

Hurry Shadow!

Chance--The Bulldog

Ow ow! he bit me with his butt!

Chance--The Bulldog

Ow ow! He bit me with his butt!

Shadow--The Golden Retriever

Oh chance you really are a 'bull' dog aren't you?

Chance--The Bulldog

I was just curious!

Sassy--The Cat

Like my mother always said 'curiosity killed the dog'

Sassy--The Cat

Like my mother always said, "Curiosity killed the dog."

Shadow--The Golden Retriever

Sassy can you pull those things out?

Sassy--The Cat

I'll try.

Chance--The Bulldog

Ow Sassy you got my lip!

Sassy--The Cat

Relax I'm a professional!

Shadow--The Golden Retriever

They look like they're in deep.

Sassy--The Cat

Really deep.

Shadow--The Golden Retriever

Whatever you do don't lick yourself!

Shadow--The Golden Retriever

Whatever you do don't lick yourself!

Chance--The Bulldog

(To retreating porcupine ) Jerk!

Chance--The Bulldog

Jerk!

Riley

Sorry shadow I had the whole gang out looking for him the dog is just not around but if you want to go to the bridge we have to leave now.

Shadow

But I just can't leave him here.

Sassy

But Shadow we can't keep staying here either think about Hope think about Peter.

Shadow

Well I do miss Peter.

Riley

Is that a yes?

Sassy

Believe me that's as close to a yes as you'll ever get.

Riley

Okay let's shake some booty or as James Brown would say, we're going to the bridge HEY!

Riley

Okay let's shake some booty or as James Brown would say, we're going to the bridge hey!

Mary Todd Lincoln

You think I'm ignorant of what you're up to because you haven't discussed this scheme with me as you ought to have done? When have I ever been so easily bamboozled? I believe you when you insist that amending the Constitution and abolishing slavery will end this war. And since you're sending my son into the war, woe to you if you fail to pass the amendment.

Sassy--The Cat

[some dogs are flirting with her] Oh, great. "Catcalls".

Sassy--The Cat

[some dogs are flirting with her] Oh, great. 'Catcalls'.

Aunt May

Secrets have a cost. They're not free. Not now, not ever.

Norma Rae

I'm always fine. I'm a horse.

Mary Todd Lincoln

"No one ever been loved so much by the people, Don't waste that power!"

Mary Todd Lincoln

No one ever been loved so much by the people, Don't waste that power!

Chance--The Bulldog

(Trying to catch fish in the river) There's one, no wait there's one! Shadow how did you get one of these?

Chance--The Bulldog

[trying to catch fish in the river] There's one, no wait there's one! Shadow how did you get one of these?

Shadow--The Golden Retriever

(Licking a fish) Sassy

Shadow--The Golden Retriever

[licking a fish] Sassy.

Chance--The Bulldog

Sassy come on help me out here I'm starving.

Sassy--The Cat

Say it first.

Chance--The Bulldog

What? Oh come on!

Sassy--The Cat

Say It!

Chance--The Bulldog

(Quietly) Cat's rule and dogs drool!

Chance--The Bulldog

[quietly] Cat's rule and dogs drool!

Sassy--The Cat

I can't hear you!

Chance--The Bulldog

Cat's rule and dogs drool you happy!

Sassy--The Cat

Thank you precious!

Chance--The Bulldog

You're welcome cupcake!

Sassy--The Cat

"MY BOYS MY BOYS!"

Sassy--The Cat

MY BOYS MY BOYS!

Chance--The Bulldog

Sassy! Sassy! Sa... Whoa Gopher hole!"

Chance--The Bulldog

Sassy! Sassy! Sa... Whoa Gopher hole!

Sassy--The Cat

"Chance Shadow, oh shadow I'd thought I never see you again!"

Sassy--The Cat

Chance Shadow, oh shadow I'd thought I never see you again!

Shadow--The Golden Retriever

"Sassy you're alive, I missed you so much!"

Shadow--The Golden Retriever

Sassy you're alive, I missed you so much!

Chance--The Bulldog

"Yeah me too."

Chance--The Bulldog

Yeah me too.

Sassy--The Cat

"Really?"

Sassy--The Cat

Really?

Chance--The Bulldog

"Well we could've used you around."

Chance--The Bulldog

Well we could've used you around.

Sassy--The Cat

"I missed you too Chance."

Sassy--The Cat

I missed you too Chance.

Chance--The Bulldog

"Hey can we go fishing now Sassy, huh can we?"

Chance--The Bulldog

Hey can we go fishing now Sassy, huh can we?

Sassy--The Cat

"Oh Chance you are hopeless but all right let's go fishing!"

Sassy--The Cat

Oh Chance you are hopeless but all right let's go fishing!

Chance--The Bulldog

"Yes FISH FISH FISH!"

Chance--The Bulldog

Yes FISH FISH FISH!

Shadow

"We can't leave until we find, Chance."

Shadow

We can't leave until we find, Chance.

Sassy

"Why not?"

Sassy

Why not?

Shadow

"You know you miss him."

Shadow

You know you miss him.

Sassy

"Oh all right I miss his stupid face and his stupid laugh and his stupid stupidness!"

Sassy

Oh all right I miss his stupid face and his stupid laugh and his stupid stupidness!

Shadow

"Oh Sassy stop it!"

Shadow

Oh Sassy stop it!

Sassy

"And I'm stupidly starting to worry about him!"

Sassy

And I'm stupidly starting to worry about him!

M'Lynn Eatenton

I don't wanna alienate the entire neighborhood

M'Lynn Eatenton

I don't wanna alienate the entire neighborhood.

Shelby Eatenton Latcherie

I think the neighborhood would feel more alienated if they got covered in bird shit at my reception.

M'Lynn Eatenton

Pretty talk!! Do ya have to be so crude?!!

M'Lynn Eatenton

Pretty talk! Do ya have to be so crude?!

Aunt May

Secrets have a cost. They're not free. Not now, not ever

May Parker

Your father was a very secretive man, Peter.

Murphy Jones

Stay to dinner murphy?

Emma Moriarty

I won't do that unless I'm still here at breakfast.

Emma Moriarty

How do you like your eggs?

Carrie

Are we going a hundred and ten?! We're going a hundred and ten!

Miranda Hillard

I bring home a birthday cake and a few gifts. You bring home the goddamn San Diego Zoo and I have to clean up after it!

Mrs. Gump

(the school bus comes to a complete stop and Young Forrest prepares to board it.) You do your very best now, Forrest?.

Mrs. Gump

[the school bus comes to a complete stop and Young Forrest prepares to board it] You do your very best now, Forrest?

Young Forrest

I sure will, Momma?.

Young Forrest

I sure will, Momma?

Forrest Gump

(Mrs. Gump kisses Young Forrest on the forehead as he's about to board the bus) (voice over) I remember the bus ride to school very well....

Forrest Gump

[Mrs. Gump kisses Young Forrest on the forehead as he's about to board the bus] [voice over] I remember the bus ride to school very well...

Mrs. Gump

This is not children's eyes?.

Mrs. Gump

This is not children's eyes.

Mrs. Gump

Remember what I told you, Forrest. You're the same as everybody else. Do you hear what I said, Forrest. You're the same as everybody else. You are no different.

Mrs. Gump

Remember what I told you, Forrest. You're no different than anybody else is. Did you hear what I said, Forrest? You're the same as everybody else.

Principal Hancock

Your boy's different, Ms. Gump. His I.Q. is seventy five.

Principal Hancock

Your boy's... different, Mrs. Gump. Now, his I.Q. is seventy-five.

Mrs. Gump

Well, we're all different, M.r. Hancock.

Mrs. Gump

Well, we're all different, Mr. Hancock.

Aunt May

Life is like a box of chocolates....

Aunt May

Life is like a box of chocolates.

Edna Spalding

EDNA SPALDING: "Moze."
MOZE: "Yes, mam."
EDNA SPALDING: "You took a no-account piece of land and a bunch of people that didn't know what they were doing...and you farmed it better than anyone. Colored or white.

Edna Spalding

Moze.

Moze

Yes, mam.

Wayne Lomax

You took a no-account piece of land and a bunch of people that didn't know what they were doing, and you farmed it better than anyone. Colored or white.